30G FELLING AND CONVERSION. 



1. Ue(jistry of the Amount aiul J'dliu' of the Yield from 

 the Frlliini. 



The results of the fellinjr, as shown in serial numbers in the 

 Range receipt-books, must now be entered in the Fellinff-register, 

 which shows the total amount of produce of each class of 

 material and its value. The prices of the units of each class 

 of produce should be average local prices, and are generally kept 

 up to date separately for each range and sometimes termed 

 timber -royalties {Hohtaxcn). 



At the same time, the produce may be marked for sale in lots 

 which as already stated should be larger or smaller, according 

 to the circumstances of the market (Mde p. 293). 



As these prices, or royalties, are fixed by units — at so much 

 a cubic meter or cubic foot, per log, per hundred poles, kc. per 

 stacked cubic meter, 100 stacked cubic feet, cord or 100 faggots 

 — all that has to be done is to multiply the number of units in 

 each class by the price of a unit. 



The Felling-register usually contains a summary of the whole 

 produce of the felling, and for this the cubic meter is generally 

 used throughout Germany, France, Austria-Hungary and 

 Switzerland. 



There is no difficulty in calculating the cubic contents of all 

 the timber and poles, and certain reducing factors established 

 by experiment are used to transform all the stacked volume of 

 the firewood, faggots, &c., from stacked to solid measure. 



The following average reducing-factors were determined by 

 measurements made in Austria, for pieces one meter long : — 



Beech, [ash, sycamore. — Tii.], boi-ulicam and oak are classed 



